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Joining us for an email interview is this year’s Poetry Contest judge, John Elizabeth Stintzi (they/she). Stintzi’s first novel, Vanishing Monuments, was a finalist for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, her second novel, My Volcano, was a Kirkus Reviews “Book of the Year,” and her latest poetry collection, Junebat, was a finalist for the […]
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We are so excited to bring you the results of this year’s Fiction Contest, judged by Heather O’Neill. The wait is finally over: here are this year’s winners! —– FIRST PLACE: Eggshells, by Rebekah Skochinski Rebekah Skochinski is a writer based in Northwestern Ontario. She is currently working on several projects all at once, including […]
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